Senior API & Cloud-Native Payments Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is hiring a Senior Software Engineer – API Development & Cloud Migration to design, develop, and modernize enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms, migrating legacy services to cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions.

You will implement secure APIs, migrate on-premises services to AWS, and lead delivery using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS technologies, with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and observability tools such as Dynatrace and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software development or related field with 4 years of experience, or 8 years with HS diploma.
• Strong experience designing and implementing API-driven microservices.
• Proven expertise moving applications to AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, and API security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support secure, scalable APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.
• Migrate APIs and integration services from on-premises to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop cloud-native solutions using AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot, following enterprise standards.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Utilize observability tools (Dynatrace, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Grafana) for monitoring and troubleshooting.

Skills

API development

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Microservices

Cloud migration

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software or related field

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

First Citizens Bank is hiring a Senior Software Engineer – API Development & Cloud Migration to design, develop, and modernize enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms, migrating legacy services to cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions.

You will implement secure APIs, migrate on-premises services to AWS, and lead delivery using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS technologies, with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and observability tools such as Dynatrace and